San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-19
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


publican government In that country.
GEORGE has sold all his Thanksgiving
turkeys and Is preparing TO least on
plucked crow.
The big drummer case hangs fire at
Galveston and the argument 10 tempo
rariIy postponed. The Island City Is
always slow on the trigger.
HENRY GEORGE is out OF politics. DR..
MCGlynn is out Of the church. Now
let politics get out George and McGlynn
get back again into the church and the
restoration will be complete.
The Waco Examiner SHES Its castor
into the ring for the state campaign OF
1888 and comes out hot for the anti-plank
in the platform. That plank may yet
splinter the Texas democracy.
THE anarchist case will be very salts
factori!y attended to under rigid re-
striotive immigration law. 1t will not
take Uncle Sam great while to edu-
cate those who are here, provided the
influx OF raw material Is cut OIL.
EXTENSIVE forest fires are raging In
northeast Texas. Some sections OF
cen raj Texas are complaining OF
drouth, but southwest Texas has sell
dom been In better condition for stock
interests than 1t is reported today from
all sections OF the grazing grounds.
OMAHA is raising hair with that inter-
state commission for unlawful descrim-
ination. Omaha has got a section OF
Armour's pork house and may be de-
pended upon to look out for her Dom.
mercisl rights, all and singular.
The switchmen are still holding the
fort at Houston, and all efforts to get
out freight trains failed yesterday,
owing to the active sympathy OF the
nrakemen. The city merchants have
AIKEN hand in, and are endeavoring to
adjust matters.
WAS IL suicide or was Ii a murder? Is
the question now sgitating the Detroit
police In the case OF Captain A.. II.
Miles, reported yesterday as having
suicided after numbering the woman
with whom he played the fool. The
end of the trail is eagerly sought for by
the Detroit police.
KANSAS encourages sugar culture by
,tiering 2 cent per pound bonus for all
sorghum pOlariZing over 800. She seer
the results of such bonus In New Jer
-ey and is encouraged. Such subsidies
by the state and wise system OF pro
lection by congress and American in
dustries will flourish.
To THOSE who have shall be given
An 8rOlite of large calibre dropped
down in front of the Merchants Ma
tiOnal bank OF Amsterdam and gave the
back yards of all the poor residents the
gO-by. Even the churches and the
heavenly visitants seek out the front
door stones of the rich.
The CAR has made his visit to Berlin
and has gone on to st. Petersburg. Ii IL
not probable that any matters affecting
the peace of Europe we're discussed dur
ing the short stay may in the Ger
man capital. There WAS very tame
reception. though the usual honOIs were
rendered. but there was no enthusiasm
among the people.
THREE men we're killed in a fight with
ferOCiOus bull whale, off Province
town, Massachusetts, and now the state
democracy are in mourning because
Butler was not one of the men on that
whaling voyage. Let the democracy
rest easy. Ben will go on whaling
voyage some OF these days from which
the democracy will pray for his return
10 vain.
The wool growers are about to make
a dead set for q restoration OF the wool
tariff. and will camp on the trail Of con-
gress early in December The demOcra-
cy will go out for political wool and
come home shOrn unless they lend lis
tening ear to the cry Of the wool men.
1t is an ominous sound 10 free trade ears
and may mean mischief TO the nOn-prO-
teCtive democracy.
The police find Johann Most a slip
perry subject. He was not In Jail many
minutes before he was bailed out by one
of his female sympathizers who put up
81, 800 tor him and he skipped. His trial
10 set for next Tuesday. New York has
symptoms Of curving her spine on this
anarchist question, and 1t may be that a
new vertebrae will be given the munich
pal police.
The libel fiend has again struck Oil In
| Texas, or thinks he has. The Fort Worth
Gazette, as noted in our news columns
some days since, is asked to donate $685.
900 as a soothing salve to cover the
| wounded seuslbilities Of some nimcom-
poop who has not the requisite cuticle to
| cover the muscles Of full grown man.
He will be sadder and wiser before he
gets his plaster.
THIS country needs protection all
around and 1t is not more necessary
| NOV quo plO'cCt OWN
tries than that she should protect the la
Dor which has given Amsrican-msde
goods the highest value OF any In the
worlds great markets. PrOte the pro-
duct OF labor by tariff; protect labor by
restrictive immigration. To do the first
only and refuse to do the latter, lie to
save at the spigOt while wasting at the
bunghOle.
| CHAMBERLAIN, OF unsavory fish noto-
riety, interviewed by twenty New York
reporters. slOps over as usual and finally
finds refuge 10 silence, that last resort oil
fools. Joe is repudiated by the whole
Canadian press, and his Montreal critic
AYERS that bis ears are so long that he
could lie down on one OF them for q
mattress and pull the other over him fol
cover In frosty weather. Should
this prove true it will indeed be a very
cold day when Joe gets left. In the
meantime he is worse baited by the
Canadians than the poor American fish.
ermen have been all summer.
The boom has not come TO San Anto.
MO but business prospects are brighter
today than at any time since 1884
There Is a manifest improvement IN al
the business life Of the city. Real estate
sales are commencing to attract atten.
ton. Many strangers are seen upon
our streets and hn signs point to the be-
ginning OF a new era OF Improved bust
ness and consequent stir among ou'